Al Sharpton
Known for: Acting
Born: October 3, 1954
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
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Filmography
68 movies · 41 TV shows, newest first
6.2
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
2024
10.0
Atrocity Inc.
2024
NR
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
2024
8.0
James Brown: Say It Loud
2024
3.5
South to Black Power
2023
NR
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023
7.0
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
2023
6.0
Loudmouth
2022
6.6
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
2022
NR
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
2.6
Sherri
2022
NR
Rudy! A Documusical
2022
7.5
JANET JACKSON.
2022
6.7
The First Wave
2021
7.3
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
NR
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
2021
6.8
Woman in Motion
2021
NR
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020
3.3
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020
6.4
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
2020
4.0
The Joy Reid Show
2020
NR
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
2020NR
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
2020
6.6
The Black Godfather
2019
7.3
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
7.2
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
8.0
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
NR
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
2018
7.3
Satan & Adam
2018
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
2018NR
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
NR
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018NR
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
2018
5.2
Maynard
2017
7.0
Get Me Roger Stone
2017
7.2
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
2017
8.0
Star
2016
NR
A Tale of James Brown
2016
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
NR
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
2015
7.1
Empire
2015
8.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
NR
91 Bullets in a Minute
2014
6.9
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
NR
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
6.0
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2013
4.9
Koch
2013
7.0
Steve Harvey
2012
7.0
The Central Park Five
2012
2.5
PoliticsNation
2011
NR
The After Party: The Last Party 3
2011
6.3
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
5.2
Looking for Lenny
2011NR
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
2011
6.8
Race
2010
6.3
One Night in Vegas
2010
8.2
America: The Story of Us
2010
6.5
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
2010
6.5
Good Hair
2009
NR
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
20091.0
If I Die Tonight
2009
10.0
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
6.5
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
NR
Abraham Obama
2009
NR
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
2009
NR
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008NR
Murder in Black & White
2008
6.7
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
6.5
The Black List: Volume One
2008
NR
The Jena 6
2007
7.5
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006NR
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
2006
7.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.5
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
3.0
Pursuit of Equality
2005
6.9
Street Fight
20058.0
I Hate My Job
2004
5.5
Celsius 41.11
2004
10.0
Tanner on Tanner
2004
7.9
Boston Legal
2004
7.5
Rescue Me
2004
7.7
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
5.4
Anderson Cooper 360°
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
5.9
Mr. Deeds
2002
7.4
My Wife and Kids
2001
6.3
Bamboozled
2000
7.3
Girlfriends
2000
10.0
Let's Talk
2000
NR
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
19993.7
Cold Feet
1999
4.6
The Chris Rock Show
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
9.6
MS NOW Reports
1996
3.8
Fox News Sunday
1996
4.4
Run For Cover
1995
7.3
New York Undercover
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
5.2
The Last Party
1993
6.8
Raw
1993
7.6
Malcolm X
1992NR
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
1990
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
4.6
Meet the Press
1947